Laptops and desktops from Lenovo with the upgraded Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will become available starting in early April, with Hewlett-Packard planning shipments of business PCs soon after, the companies said.

HP will also ship consumer PCs with the service pack around mid-June, with other back-to-school products, a company spokesman said.

Dell did not respond to requests for comment.

PCs with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will include patches and fixes issued by Microsoft since the OS was released in October 2009. Users could otherwise spend hours manually installing patches and Service Pack 1, which became available for download in mid-February.

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